Barbaric views on abortion

Forcing a rape victim to bear the child of her rapist is barbaric. I don't believe any sane, intelligent woman wants to replicate the DNA of a rapist.

Vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan co-sponsored House Resolution 212, "The Sanctity of Human Life Act," that stated: "the life of each human being begins with fertilization ... at which time every human being shall have all the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood," outlawing any abortion, including that of raped women (www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr212ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr212ih.pdf). It could outlaw the pill and other forms of birth control. One of the bill's co-sponsors was Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin ---- who claimed a raped woman would not get pregnant.

Worrying about the fate of a non-sentient being, a fetus, in view of the basic problem this planet faces ---- overpopulation of the human species ---- is nuts. Claiming that a fertilized egg is a human with civil rights is irrational. Sixty to 80 percent of such eggs fail to implant in the uterus. Thirty-one percent of implanted embryos miscarry (http://discovermagazine.com/2004/may/cover/article_view?b_start:int=2&-C).

A fertilized egg is less sentient than the ants that I murdered today in the thousands. How can anyone vote for someone who would give such a being legal rights?